Mayweather, Canelo and Fury: The worst ducker?

I can't think of a Floyd duck that was as obvious or as bad or as sport-tarnishing as Fury ducking Usyk

I think Floyd exercised his A-side more than Fury, but Floyd did it in a clever way where he stacked the advantages up... but still got the fight made

Canelo's thing with GGG was bad, but their still got the trilogy on in hindsight and Canelo's (and Floyd's) resumes are deep enough that they can fall back on it

I also hold the heavyweight division to a higher standard... even though it's the most clownish division in the sport

 

Wow, for “duckers” these three have fought some dangerous competition!

With that said - Fury letting the Usyk fight fall through atm and Floyd not fighting Pac til he got iced by JMM feel fairly similar to me.

Outside of that, they both fought pretty solid competition (given what was available - especially in the case of Fury)

Canelo is good - people just love to hate him. During his oft-criticized super middleweight run he fought Saunders who at the time was looked at as a king of dark horse of the division, Smith who had fairly recently beat Groves (the former top guy), and Plant who is looked at as one of the best fighters in the division as evidenced by the excitement about this weekends upcoming fight….

One gimme fight with Yildrim is fine, and for any other fighter people would call it a “tune-up” and say it’s necessary.

Fury’s bout with Whyte suffers from a similar type of revisionist view of things.

Floyd also has a great resume in general, but probably took advantage of timing / negotiation more than the others.

 

Take Floyd and Canelo out, you can't call someone a ducker if they actually ended up fighting the person you're screaming they ducked......

 

People always blame Canelo for the 3rd fight but that was 100% GGGs fault. GGG demanded the fight be in MSG (or somewhere other than Vegas) because he felt he was robbed in the 2nd fight. Definitely NOT robbed but it shouldve been a draw unlike the first fight where GGG should've won (but a draw was a feasible albeit biased - as usual - for Canelo). And the site demands came AFTER GGG had crazy demands for the rematch that included higher purse, selection of ref/judges, and even complained of noise in Canelo's lockerroom lol

 

Tank is a worse duck than Floyd, Canelo, or Fury. At least all of those three tested themselves. Tank still working on his 1st real opponent and he's fighting part-time instagram star at a CW w a rehydration clause...

GTFOH

 

They all shamelessly avoided the toughest test of their career. For shame.

 

Well put, I agree.

 

We can look at both in hindsight,

Floyd was far more worn than Pac, this is evidenced by the fact Pac was still world class after the fight. That fight was Floyd's last hurrah.

As for Canelo trying to age Golovkin, I thought Golovkin won both 1 and 2, so clearly Golovkin was still prime level

Fury doesn't really wanna fight Usyk, I'd say that is a duck. He' already previously said Usyk isn't a draw (in his opinion), and wants someone from the west. That would technically be a duck. I'm not sold that they'll ever fight.

 

GGG. Ducked an entire division for nearly half a decade, somehow still pouted his way to a big money trilogy, then abandoned his laurels to duck YET ANOTHER challenger.

 

Fury by a mile

 

I was thinking of such a thread but I would include Jack Dempsey who is accused almost daily in Classic for "ducking" both Greb and Wills.

 

This is the worst duck in recent years. Fury has monumentally tarnished his standing. I bet even sugar hill distances himself now. Tank Davis is irrelevant, we all know that guy's career is a circus and an in-house job, the difference with Fury is most people thought he was legit. He had the potential to make the best fight and the most lucrative fight in boxing here yet moved the goal posts at every turn, it's a clear f****** duck.. even more disgusting is he played his own fans.